Novasens® BCS PREMIUM

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Novasens® BCS PREMIUM
The extremely low-migration and low-odour series
Base colour ink series for sheetfed offset
Product features
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Novasens® BCS PREMIUM is a highly pigmented, extremely low-migration and low-odour base colour ink series
which has been developed specially for sensitive food and semi-luxury food applications, where there is no direct
contact between the printed image and the contents of the package.

Novasens® BCS PREMIUM consists on 10 base colour inks plus black and transparent white and is
supplemented by 3 inks with particularly high fastness properties. All base colour inks are resistant to waterbased coating. The series is optimally suited for mixing colour shades of the PANTONE® fan. Besides that it can
also be used to mix any other colour shade with specific fastness properties, as is often required in packaging
printing. The base colour inks are formulated with optimised colour strength.

The series is excellently suited both for the latest generation printing presses and machines of older design and
construction.
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Further benefits of Novasens® BCS PREMIUM are the excellent colour intensity, high brilliance and very good
printability.

Novasens® BCS PREMIUM is particularly suited for the production of packaging that complies with the
requirements of the EU-regulation 1935/2004 and 2023/2006 as well as with the Swiss Ordinance 817.023.21.
Mineral oil is not used as an intentional formulation component of this series. The release of aldehydes on
neutral substrates is below the detection limit.
Advantages of Novasens® BCS PREMIUM

Extremely low-migration and low-odour.

The base colour ink series complies with requirements for
printing inks for food packaging.

Low swelling.
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Highly pigmented.

High brilliance.

Excellent colour intensity.
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Ideally suited for gloss coated papers and board.
Novasens® BCS PREMIUM
Yellow
VZ93-100I
t
5
3
+
+
+
+
Resistant Yellow
VZ93-153I
t
6-7
5-6
+
-
+
+
Orange 021
VZ93-200I
t
5
3
+
+
+
+
Red 032
VZ93-302I
so
5
3
+
-
+
+
Rubine Red
VZ93-301I
t
5
3
+
+
-
-
Alkali Rst. Rubine Red
VZ93-346I
t
5
4
+
+
+
+
Rst. Rhodamine Red
VZ93-369I
t
7
5-6
+
+
+
+
Resistant Violet
VZ93-450I
t
7
6
+
+
+
+
Process Blue
VZ93-500I
t
8
6-7
+
+
+
+
Green
VZ93-600I
t
8
6-7
+
+
+
+
Black
VZ93-960I
o
8
8
+
+
+
+
Transparent White
VZ93-000I
t
Highest fastness
properties
Rub resistance
Rapid further processing
Suitability for gloss coated
papers/board
Suitability for uncoated
papers/board
Suitability for matt coated
papers/board
4
3
1
2
3
6
4
6
1 = Characteristic weakly expressed
7 = Characteristic strongly expressed
The assessment of the colour properties was
made under standardised printing conditions.
In individual cases, under special conditions,
as in printing with very high ink densities, the
classification of certain properties may be
different.
Light fastness properties according to ISO
12040: from 1 (low) to 8 (high)
Fastness properties according to ISO 2836:
+ = Good Resistance
+/- = Partly Resistant
- = Not Resistant
Opaqueness:
o = opaque so = slightly opaque
t = transparent
article
code
R/S Yellow
VZ93-183I
t
6-7
5
+
+
+
+
Y/S Red
VZ93-355I
t
7
6
+
+
+
+
Resistant Rubine Red
VZ93-366I
t
7
6
+
+
+
-
You are welcome to contact us for further information.
Flint Group
Packaging & Narrow Web
Sieglestrasse 25
70469 Stuttgart, Germany
Oxidative drying
article
code
Setting
Caustic soda solution
Alkali
Solvent mixture
Ethanol
Light 10 %
Printing properties
Gloss
Novasens® BCS
PREMIUM
Light 100 %
Opaqueness
Fastness properties/opaqueness
T +49 711 98 16-0
F +49 711 98 16-700
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The aim of our technical documents is to inform our customers about general values.
However, the transferability of general values known from experience and laboratory
results to concrete practical applications depends on a number of factors which are
beyond our control. We therefore ask for your understanding that this advice
document cannot be used as the basis for claims in law. Furthermore, the correct
application for each product has to be checked carefully for suitability.
Product names followed by ® are trademarks registered by Flint Group Germany
GmbH. PANTONE® is a registered trademark of Pantone, Inc.
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Novasens® BCS PREMIUM
Substrates
Ideally suited for gloss coated, matt coated and uncoated papers and board in combination with
inline water-based coating. We recommend testing the suitability of the substrate for printing food
packaging.
Drying properties
Drying by absorption.
As an extremely low-odour and low-migration ink, Novasens® BCS PREMIUM dries only by
absorption. For this reason an inline water based coating is always necessary (Novaset® 4211/40
gloss coating or Novaset® 4400/40 matt coating). The nip volume of the anilox roller should not be
less then 13 cm3.
Hints for mixing
spot colours
Due to the high colour strength, the mono-pigmentation and specific fastness properties, the base
colour inks of Novasens® BCS PREMIUM are ideally suited for easy formulation and mixing of
spot colours, that are resistant to water-based coating. For mixing spot colours with a high
proportion of transparent white or with special properties such as high light fastness or for special
applications such as UV-varnishing, 3 base colours with specific fastness properties are available.
The whole range of PANTONE® colour shades can be achieved with typical wet offset printing film
weights.
Mixing books/
calibration data
Mixing formulae for all PANTONE® C and U colour shades are available in the Flint Group BCS
mixing book GLOBAL PLUS. An additional mixing book with the denomination GLOBAL FAST
contains mixing formulae of PANTONE® C and U colour shades with enlarged fastness properties,
which for example may be requested due to the subsequent print finishing process. Both mixing
books, as well as calibration data for computerised ink formulation with X-Rite Ink formulation can
be made available upon request.
Special notes
Novasens® BCS PREMIUM is particularly suited for the production of packaging that complies with
the requirements of the EU-regulation 1935/2004 and 2023/2006. Additionally the series meets
the requirements of the EuPIA Guideline „Printing Inks applied to the non-food contact surface of
food packaging materials and articles“ and the „Guidance Note on Packaging Inks“published by
Nestlé.
We recommend Hydrofast® AFS 359 Novasens fountain solution for alcohol reduced or alcohol free
printing.
If the printing press was previously running with conventional inks, it should be thoroughly cleaned
and all ink residues have to be removed before printing with low-migration inks. For this purpose,
only washes suitable for low-migration printing should be used, taking into account the
manufacturers` recommendations for use. Flint Group recommends Varn® Non-VOC Wash or
Varn® V60 Plus for this purpose. Following the wash cycle, thorough rinsing with clean water is
essential.
Heating of printed packaging in an oven has to be carefully considered due to the potential
appearance of temperature peaks. In contrast, microwave heating of packaging without acceptor
laminate is non-critical. Generally the heating of packaging to temperatures exceeding 200°C must
be avoided.
Due to the drying characteristics of these inks the suitability for hot foil stamping should be tested
before starting a print run.
You are welcome to contact us for further information.
Flint Group
Packaging & Narrow Web
Sieglestrasse 25
70469 Stuttgart, Germany
T +49 711 98 16-0
F +49 711 98 16-700
[email protected]
www.flintgrp.com
The aim of our technical documents is to inform our customers about general values.
However, the transferability of general values known from experience and laboratory
results to concrete practical applications depends on a number of factors which are
beyond our control. We therefore ask for your understanding that this advice
document cannot be used as the basis for claims in law. Furthermore, the correct
application for each product has to be checked carefully for suitability.
Product names followed by ® are trademarks registered by Flint Group Germany
GmbH. PANTONE® is a registered trademark of Pantone, Inc.
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Novasens® BCS PREMIUM
Additives
Never add driers to the inks or fountain solution. If there is a need for tack reduction, for example
when printing on sensitive substrates, use only special Novasens PREMIUM Reducer or Novasens
PREMIUM Reduxpaste.
Further products
Novasens® P 660 PREMIUM – extremely low-odour and low-migration special process series
Migration test
A migration test according to DIN EN 14338 was made under worst case conditions (320% ink
coverage) on Invercote 180 g/m². The test revealed that the migration of substances fell below the
60ppm limit by a factor of more than 10. (Based on the EU convention whereupon 6 dm² packaging
surface correlates with 1 kg food). A copy of this report is available upon request.
Further information
For further information please refer to our Technical Reviews regarding food packaging printing,
such as “Sheetfed inks for food packaging printing“ or “Mixing of low-migration inks”.
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Flint Group
Packaging & Narrow Web
Sieglestrasse 25
70469 Stuttgart, Germany
T +49 711 98 16-0
F +49 711 98 16-700
[email protected]
www.flintgrp.com
The aim of our technical documents is to inform our customers about general values.
However, the transferability of general values known from experience and laboratory
results to concrete practical applications depends on a number of factors which are
beyond our control. We therefore ask for your understanding that this advice
document cannot be used as the basis for claims in law. Furthermore, the correct
application for each product has to be checked carefully for suitability.
Product names followed by ® are trademarks registered by Flint Group Germany
GmbH. PANTONE® is a registered trademark of Pantone, Inc.
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